Sunday, February 06, 2011

Sunshine Sweat and a Southerly Buster

It's been hot in Sydney, very hot. Eight consecutive days of high 30's and low 40's. Frankly it's been exhausting. Queensland's had floods and a cyclone bigger than Katrina now WA is in the grip of Bushfires so I guess we were lucky to have nothing more than debilitating heat. I washed my curtains on Saturday and they dried in 20 minutes! So today, in an effort to escape the oppressive heat and humidity, we picnicked at Lavender Bay with the Groovy Grannies and my sister in law and a couple of cousins. It was a stinker until finally, the southerly buster came in and cooled things off. Tonight, I may sleep all night.

We are in the 70's right now during winter and in a few months when you are cooling down we will be heating up and then be in the 90's and 100's most of the summer. Half of the US is freezing and we are nice and warm during the days and cool at night. This is the best time of the year here and I wish it could stay this way all year, but alas the electric company will soon own us again. Running the AC just keeps getting costlier and costlier each year. But I could not survive without it and so am screwed. Oh well such is life.

It looks like you all had a great time and I know what you mean about those cooling winds. Once in a while we get those and they are oh so sweet. But now I have got this craving for macaroni salad and fried chicken, not sure why. LOL

I hope you had a really good sleep, 50 degrees is a good temp to sleep in.

Hopefully it will cool down for you all and that bad weather will stop.

I don't know if anyone is happy with their weather right now. We have had below normal temps and a ton of snow and now my house drains are blocked up and we don't know if it's ice in the drain lines, a full septic or saturated leach field. Jeez. I do know it's Sunday and it's time & a half or double time to snake so we're toughing it out til tomorrow. ugh.

Oh stop complaining ;-) Or just don't show us those very relaxed photos of happy people, nice food and champagne. Please! It's 9 Celsius (which is warm for the time of year) at the very most over here, but the wind is so strong that I haven't slept in three nights now, worrying about trees blowing over and falling on the stables and non-glamourous stuff like that.

That looks like a lovely picnic, but I hope you checked under that blanket for naughty redbacks and funnel webs. Surely those things creepy-crawl everywhere...

... how many times a year do you get bitten? Do you keep antivenene in your fridge?

OK I'm doing my 1st class whingeing Pom act here but bloody hell it must be terrifying knowing those bastard critters are sneaking around your garden! Round the outback. Wherever you go you can't be more than 10 foot from somehting that could kill you or at least gecha an amputation. Nasty business!

Your weather looks yummy by the way. don't complain. We had ice on the streets only 2 weeks ago...

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